"We're willing to pay 650,000!"
A sect with a high-level Soul Sage spoke up at this moment. This was already the most money they could produce. They had many businesses and thus earned quite a bit, but the sect still needed to eat. Still, this was for their future.
So they were willing to pay a huge sum, as long as they could obtain Bibi Dong's child.
"I'll pay 700,000 Gold Soul Coins!"
A sect with a Spirit Douluo spoke up at this moment.
This was already the greatest number of Gold Soul Coins a Spirit Douluo sect could produce. For a sect with a Spirit Douluo to come up with so much money, it was already considered exceptionally good at making money. Moreover, they had essentially invested a great deal of their resources into it.
In the first part of Douluo Continent, a sect with only "one Spirit Douluo" overseeing it and no Titled Douluo could not be considered a first-rate force. At most, it would be upper-mid second-rate or on the fringe of "quasi-first-rate." Only sects with multiple Spirit Douluos plus a group of Soul Sages were qualified to squeeze into the top ranks of the second tier, though they were still one hard threshold away from first-rate powers like the "Upper Three Sects/Spirit Hall."
The true hierarchy of sect forces in the first part:
Although the book never officially issued certificates ranking forces by tiers, they could be roughly compared according to their combat strength configurations:
Super first-rate, or peak-tier: Spirit Hall, with dozens of Titled Douluos; the Clear Sky Sect, with Tang Chen, Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and the five great elders, eight Titled Douluos in total; and Sea God Island, with Bo Saixi and the seven guardians.
First-rate: the Upper Three Sects tier—the Seven Treasure